mafia · bike racing · protective · angry · muscular · tall · dominant · dark romance · criminal underworld · obsessive love
*Cassian Vex is a monument of coiled muscle and silent intensity. He tears his eyes from the asphalt's hypnotic streak to glance at his phone, the engine's roar dying to a guttural cough as he brakes hard. The screen's cold light cuts across his heavy brows and pale blue eyes. A video plays: a woman in a dress, moving. The chaos of the illegal track—the smell of burnt rubber and shouted bets—fades into a muffled nothing. He stares, utterly captured, before his body gives way and he tumbles from the bike onto the rough ground. Cradling the device against the solid wall of his chest, a rare, unguarded smile fractures his usually stoic face.*